With the release of MPC2000 Snacks From Mars, we invited producers from all over the world to take part in a contest: whoever produces the best track using only these samples for their drums will win an MPC2000XL. Ultimately we received over 600 submissions and decided to create an album with the standouts. 

Read each track description for info on how the song was made, in the producer's own words.

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MPC2000 Snacks From Mars Competition

Originals

He went ghost that night but her seance couldn't bring him around.
His touch was cold and haunting, he only brought her down.
Monotony had scared him from his home town.
Monogamy prepared him to be broken down.

He was a long way from their only home
and there was no way that she could've known.

Is there a place we could go to run away?
Is there a way you could let me know?
Is there a place we could go to hide away?
Is mine a face you could bear to show?

She heard the voice of a ghost on her birthday so she pretended 

he wasn't there.

Séance

easy does it baby
i'm volatile, i'm waiting
to see
if it's by design

easy as it could be
i don't know why it would be
alright
it feels too right

i don't get too much sleep so if
you could stay up with me
then you might
get to see what i'm like

Easy

Pull the knot in my chest until it rots in my head
I-I need a break I need a week in my bed

I don't wanna speak on all the things that I've said
I'ma eat my words and I'ma make my bed

If I grit my teeth, would they fall out of my head?
Would I roll in the rubble and all the bones I shed?

Wish that I had a shovel to dig it out of myself
I kept the beat in my pocket to keep my words in a shell

Won't walk, I'm too scared of tripping
All the noise in my head's just clipping. I

-can't talk, the words went missing
So don't call my phone

Clipping

Lightheaded

Zachariah Zoske is a beatmaker, producer, singer/songwriter from Fort Wayne, Indiana.

On producing this track:

"I loaded the MPC2000 samples onto an Ableton drum rack and programmed a pretty basic drum pattern and spiced it up with the beat repeater plugin to add some swing to the pocket. From there, I threw down a bass line and the rest of the instrumentation sort of just fell into place. I freestyled vocal melodies until I found something I liked and then spent an evening coming up with the lyrics."

https://soundcloud.com/zachariahfredrick

Lightheaded - Zachariah Zoske

Zaspéro is a french house producer "trying to find the Outerspace groove".

On producing this track:

"I only used my own sounds, chords from my Yamaha CP, leads from the Moog Matriarch, bass from Reaktor, voice from the VT-3."

SoundCloud/zaspero400

HONORABLE MENTION: I Want That MPC so bad - Zaspéro

Blanax is an Electronic music producer / audio engineer based in Romania/Europe

On producing this track:

" I used Ableton Live and a recently purchased Push2 Controller, basically following the learning curve of the Push2. I started with programming the drums pattern,using the MPC2000 Snacks From Mars, which made me super inspired, afterwards adding various chords, bits and pieces, mostly using Ableton's Simpler device and stock effects (reverbs, delays, autopan). After I had all tracks coming together, I started arranging, automating stuff and mixing."

https://soundcloud.com/balanx_88

1st PLACE: Paradise Chills - Balanx

Exenye is a 24 year old producer and sound designer from Germany.

On producing this track:

"I created the track in ableton 10, made the groove within a single drum rack and impulse channels, and enhanced the percussion with compression, plate rooms, vocoders and much more."

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5CQq765j8c1v4UpIc7REBl?si=6yai2WCjTNuPtOIqimaYUA

Advancing - Exenye

Ethereal is a producer based in Poland - making a wide variety of music, from trap to synth wave to metal.

On producing this tack:

"I used the samples from "Quarantine Club" subcategory. All of the sounds were put together in FL Studio, which is my DAW of choice. I experimented and tried to create something similar to 90's rave mixed with modern trap feeling, and I'm happy with the result."

https://www.instagram.com/not_ethereal

2nd PLACE: No Point - Ethereal

pasha stclair is a Scottish groove enthusiast who lives I London.

On producing this track:

"The track was created with the Ableton (MPC2000 Snacks) live drum pack, with synths from my own sample pack - Hotwire Samples for Ableton Live - 4 modern synths sampled through a Manley Core Pre amp with Millard vintage valves Installed. (giving away my secret recipe here ;-). The synths in this track were a Dreadbox Abyss and a Boomstar SEM. Mixed and Mastered with UAD plugins."

https://pashastclair.bandcamp.com/releases

Lightheaded - Zachariah Zoske

Samples From Mars